Isaiah 34:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Edom's streams will turn into tar and its soil into sulphur— then the whole country will go up in flames.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

He looked down towards Sodom and Gomorrah and saw smoke rising from all over the land—it was like a flaming furnace.

Job 18:15

Then their tents and possessions are burnt to ashes,

Psalm 11:6

He will send fiery coals and flaming sulphur down on the wicked, and they will drink nothing but a scorching wind.

Isaiah 30:33

Long ago the LORD got a place ready for burning the body of the dead king. The place for the fire is deep and wide, the wood is piled high, and the LORD will start the fire by breathing out flaming sulphur.

Jeremiah 49:13

I, the LORD, swear in my own name that your city of Bozrah and all your towns will suffer a horrible fate. They will lie in ruins for ever, and people will use the name “Bozrah” as a curse word.

Luke 17:29

But on the very day Lot left Sodom, fiery flames poured down from the sky and killed everyone.

Deuteronomy 29:23

has become a scorching desert of salt and sulphur, where nothing is planted, nothing sprouts, and nothing grows. It will be as lifeless as the land around the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, after the LORD became angry and destroyed them.

Jude 1:7

We should also be warned by what happened to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns. Their people became immoral and did all sorts of sexual sins. Then God made an example of them and punished them with eternal fire.

Revelation 19:20

But the beast was captured and so was the false prophet. This is the same prophet who had performed miracles for the beast, so that he could fool everyone who had the mark of the beast and worshipped the idol. The beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into a lake of burning sulphur.

Revelation 21:8

But I will tell you what will happen to cowards and to everyone who is unfaithful or dirty-minded or who murders or is sexually immoral or uses witchcraft or worships idols or tells lies. They will be thrown into that lake of fire and burning sulphur. This is the second death.